Colonisation of the eastern Mediterranean by Red Sea cumaceans, with the description of a new species

Colonisation of the eastern Mediterranean by Red Sea cumaceans, with the description of a new species

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In samples collected in the course of the national monitoring programme, two interesting cumacean species were collected on the shallow bottoms (6-14 m) of Haifa Bay, Israel.Scherocumella gurneyi, previously known from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, is recorded for chiggate.com the first time in the Mediterranean Sea.Eocuma rosae is described as a species new to science.

Diagnostic characters such as its flattened carapace bearing a sharp marginal carina, the pair of anteriorlycurved ilootpaperie acute horns and the pair of dorsal carinae, place E.rosae with other species of the same genus known from the Indo- Pacific Ocean.It is suggested it entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.